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General Clinical Research Center
J. Hillis Miller Health Center, Room 3245 Shands
1600 SW Archer Road
Gainesville, FL 32610-0215
URL:
www.gcrc.ufl.edu/
Grant No. M01 RR00082 |
For information
about this GCRC and how to access its resources, please
contact:
Administrative Manager
Ann Coutu
352-265-8909; Fax: 352-265-8910
E-mail:
coutua@gcrc.ufl.edu
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Program Director
Peter W. Stacpoole, Ph.D., M.D.
352-265-8909; Fax: 352-265-8910
E-mail:
stacpool@gcrc.ufl.edu
Principal Investigator
C. Craig Tisher, M.D.
352-846-2473; Fax: 352-846-3299
E-mail:
tisher@dean.med.ufl.edu
Associate Program Director
Mark Brantly, M.D.
352-846-2701; Fax: 352-846-3299
E-mail:
brantml@medicine.ufl.edu
Associate Program Director
Desmond Schatz, M.D.
352-334-1390; Fax: 352-846-2147
E-mail:
schatzda@peds.ufl.edu
Research Subject Advocate
Barbara Frentzen, A.R.N.P., M.S.N.
352-265-0680 x43715; Fax: 352-265-8910
E-mail:
frentzen@gcrc.ufl.edu
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Nurse Manager
Teresa d'Angelo, R.N., B.S.N., C.C.R.C.
352-265-0032; Fax: 352-338-9843
E-mail:
danget@shands.ufl.edu
Core Laboratory Director
George N. Henderson, Ph.D.
352-392-2321; Fax: 352-846-0990
E-mail:
hendegn@medicine.ufl.edu
Nutrition Research Manager
Meena Shankar, M.S., R.D.
352-265-0680 x43713; Fax: 352-338-9843
E-mail:
shankarm@gcrc.ufl.edu
Biostatistician
Johnathan Shuster, Ph.D.
352-294-0004; Fax: 352-392-4168
E-mail:
jshuster@gcrc.ufl.edu
Informatics Manager
Douglas W. Theriaque, M.S.
352-265-8909 x46233; Fax: 352-265-8910
E-mail:
theriaque@gcrc.ufl.edu
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Special Resources, Instruments, or Services
Computerized diet intake analysis
Dinamap blood pressure monitoring
DNA isolation
Gas chromatograph/mass spectrometry
Glucose/lactate analyses
Indirect calorimetry
Liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry
Metabolic kitchen
Scintillation counting
Sleep research room
Statistical planning, data management, and analysis
services
Clinical Pharmacology: Pharmacokinetics of
beta-adrenergic blockers; biotransformation and
pharmacokinetics of dichloroacetate.
Endocrinology and Metabolism: Diagnosis, prevention
and treatment of insulin-dependent diabetes and other
autoimmune diseases; course and treatment of congenital
lactic acidosis.
Environmental Health: Biotransformation and
toxicology of chlorinated hydrocarbons.
Exercise Physiology: Modulation of cardiac risk
factors by graded exercise; exercise-induced changes in
homocysteine metabolism and insulin resistance; exercise
endurance in mitochondrial diseases.
Gastroenterology: Isotopic breath tests for
diagnosis of intestinal bacterial overgrowth and
malabsorption; new drug therapy for pancreatitis and
hepatitis C.
Gene Therapy: Administration of adeno-associated
viral vectors for congenital diseases.
Neonatology: Maternal-fetal HIV transmission;
prevention of nosocomial infections in preterm neonates;
placental transport and metabolism; biology of cytokine
receptors; GCSF therapy in neonates; identification and
functional significance of erythropoietin receptors in the
fetus; glutamine synthetase and glutaminase activities in
premature infants.
Nursing: Coping effectiveness of parents whose
children have inborn errors of metabolism.
Nutrition: Folate and pyridoxine nutritional status
in women; nutritional regulation of one-carbon metabolism;
gene polymorphisms affecting homocysteine metabolism.
Pulmonary Diseases: Treatment of cystic fibrosis;
alpha-1 antritypsin deficiency and asthma.
Rheumatology: Pathobiology of systemic lupus
erythematosus; treatment of fibromyalgia.
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General Clinical Research Center
1450 NW 10 Avenue (R-134) Room 2044
Miami, FL 33136
URL:
www.med.miami.edu
Grant No. M01 RR16587 |
For information
about this GCRC and how to access its resources, please
contact:
Administrative Manager
Robin Lee Harbach, M.P.A.
305-243-5012; Fax: 305-243-5753
E-mail:
rharbach@med.miami.edu
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Program Director
Jay Skyler, M.D.
305-243-6146; Fax: 305-243-4484
E-mail:
jskyler@med.miami.edu
Principal Investigator
John Clarkson, M.D.
305-243-6545; Fax: 305-243-4888
E-mail:
jclarkson@med.miami.edu
Associate Program Director
Rodolfo Alejandro, M.D.
305-243-5374; Fax: 305-243-1058
E-mail:
ralejand@med.miami.edu
Associate Program Director
Gwendolyn Scott, M.D.
305-243-5324; Fax: 305-243-5562
E-mail:
gscott@med.miami.edu
General Advisory Committee Chair
Neil Schneiderman, Ph.D.
305-284-4168 x1; Fax: 305-284-2522
E-mail:
nschneid@med.miami.edu
Research Subject Advocate
Robin Lee Harbach, B.S.N., M.P.A.
305-243-5012
E-mail:
rharbach@med.miaami.edu
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Nurse Manager
Violette Sotelo, B.S.N.
305-243-5012; Fax: 305-243-6988
E-mail:
vsotelo@med.miami.edu
MRI Core Director
Brian Bowen, M.D.
305-243-5520; Fax: 305-243-2499
E-mail:
bbowen@med.miami.edu
Nutrition Research Director
Gail Shor-Posner, Ph.D.
305-243-4072; Fax: 305-243-4687
E-mail:
gposner@med.miami.edu
Nutrition Research Specialist
Gwen Enfield, B.S., R.D.
305-243-6975; Fax: 305-243-3313
E-mail:
genfield@med.miami.edu
Informatics Manager
Maricruz Silva-Ramos, M.I.S.
305-243-3466; Fax: 305-243-5753
E-mail:
msilva2@med.miami.edu
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Special Resources, Instruments, or Services
Basic specimen/assay processing
DEXA/body composition/anthropometrics
Indirect calorimetry
MRI core services
Professional nursing services
Professional nutrition services
Professional biostatistical/informatics services
Statistical/informatics planning, data management, and analysis services
Behavior Sciences: Cognitive behavior stress management (CBSM)
intervention in gay men, women, and heterosexual HIV or healthy persons;
CBSM effects on the quality of life and cervical neoplasia in HIV-infected
women; acute stress responses in HIV pre- and post-cognitive behavioral
stress; CBSM and prostate cancer; cognitive behavior therapy in acute
post-myocardial infarction patients; managing adherence in HIV-positive
men with drug abuse history; behavioral interventions for women with HIV/AIDS.
Endocrinology and Metabolism: Islet cell transplantation in type 1
insulin-dependent diabetes; oral insulin to delay beta-cell destruction;
prevention, control and complications of insulin- and non-insulin-dependent
type 1 and type 2 diabetes; insulin resistance and its role clinically.
Hematology: Clinical and immunological effects of autologous lymph
node cell transplant in chronic fatigue syndrome; pediatric hydroxyurea
phase II trial in sickle cell anemia; red blood cell mass, autonomic nervous
system integrity and syncope in chronic fatigue syndrome.
Infectious Disease: HIV, aging, and cognition: A synergism?; drug abuse,
HIV, selenium supplementation, and cardiovascular disease risk; HIV-infecting
drug users: outcomes and hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal axis activity; barrier
acceptability among culturally diverse women with HIV.
Nutrition: Impact of dietary carbohydrate and fat intake on
cardiovascular risk factors associated with insulin resistance.
Obstetrics and Gynecology: Mother/infant intervention at delivery,
Miami Project (MIRIAD).
Oncology: Arsenic trioxide with ascorbic acid in the treatment of
relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma; calcifidiol therapy in prostate cancer;
chemotherapy for refractory HIV associated with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma;
introduction therapy in the treatment of HIV-positive primary central nervous
system lymphoma; randomized trial of chemotherapy with or without Rituximab for
HIV-associated non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
Pediatrics: Neurodevelopmental outcomes of in utero cocaine
exposure; modifying risk in youths with elevated blood pressure;
effects of antiretroviral therapy on body composition in HIV-infected
children, pediatric late outcomes HIV clinical AIDS trials group
(PACTG 219C).
Transplantation: Islet cell transplantation in type 1
insulin-dependent diabetes.
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